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先生

Reading: せんせい

Meaning: noun that is also used as a honorific meaning teacher, master, doctor, lawyer and others

Chinese study session

After the first post about Silesian, it’s time to get into the details! As I said there, the alphabet that in my opinion it’s the most accurate one is: A Ã B C Ć D E F G H I J K L Ł M N Ń O Ŏ Ō Ô Õ P R S Ś T U W Y Z Ź Ż

Almost all the sounds cover the Polish ones, so I won’t get into it (you can find a good post about the Polish pronunciation here) The only letter that differs is Ō, it’s a sound between o (short) and u (English oo). It appears in the word Ślōnsk (Silesia). 

What about other letters? Silesian wasn’t meant to be written so they are purely made for ortography purposes.  Ã - appears in place of Polish ‘ę’ (usually at the end of nouns in genitive, but there are exceptions), makes a short ‘a’ sound Polish - dziękuję Silesian - dziynkujã 

 Ŏ - appears in place of Polish ‘a’ , makes a short ‘o’ sound Polish - gadać Silesian - gŏdać 

Ô - makes a ‘ło’ or English ‘wo’ sound  ôbŏcz - look! (imperative) 

Õ - makes a short ‘o’ sound, it appears only in feminine words in accusative case ending with -yjo or -ijo  ôglōndōm telewizyjõ - I’m watching television 

In French, there are two ways of saying “new”: neuf and nouveau. While both of these words translate to “new” in English, there is actually a slight difference between them.

Nouveau

This is the most common and general word for “new”, and has two masculine forms: nouveau and nouvel. The latter is only used in front of words beginning with vowels. The feminine form is nouvelle.

Nouveau means new in the sense of new to the speaker. An object that is different to what the speaker previously had, whether or not it is actually new, is nouveau. For example, une nouvelle voiture (a new car) can refer to a car the speaker recently acquired, even if the car is actually second-hand.

Nouveau is always placed BEFORE a noun.

Neuf

The feminine of this word is neuve. Unlike nouveau, neuf means new in the sense of brand new or recently made. In this case, une voiture neuve would mean a car that has never had a previous owner or that was never used. However, this term cannot be used to refer to living beings, such as animals or people. Therefore, something that is neuf is always nouveau, but the opposite isn’t always true.